Richard Seroter has a style of writing that’s… entertaining and easy to read. Some books or articles have a tendency to go on and on without really saying too much. Let me assure you, that’s not the case here. You can find that in his blog as well. If...

In this month’s interview with a “connected systems” thought leader, I have a little pow-wow with the one and only Mick Badran. Mick is a long-time blogger, Microsoft MVP, trainer, consultant and a stereotypical Australian. ...

A couple of days late, but I’m thrilled to announce that Microsoft has recognized me as a Most Valuable Professional again for 2009. I’m always immensely honored to be counted among this incredible group of technologists. MVPs are known around...

Microsoft has released the next version of Silverlight (Silverlight 3.0). The following are the links from where you can download this version: Silverlight 3 download and installation
Microsoft® SilverlightTM 3 SDK
Microsoft® SilverlightTM 3 Tools for...

While building a Excel CSV to Claim application for a client I needed to take a comma delimited record and place it into a string array. The challenge is that there is a wrap character only for the fields that have the delimiter in the data. Example:...

This post is more a reference to me in case I come across this again, but also to anyone else that may experience the same error, as I couldn’t find any reference to it when searching online. It was one of those infuriating situations where you believe...

(so, if you’re reading this, you’re in the right place!) Well it was more work than it should have been, but my blog and content has been moved to a new home. As you can see, I have some cool new capabilities that I’ve already started to take advantage of. If you had previously subscribed to my RSS feed, I’m sorry, but you’ll need to do so again, see the link in the left margin. My passion for technologies has not changed (BizTalk/ESB/SOA/Oslo/Dublin/Cloud/etc). I have some pent-up blog posts inside...

About six weeks ago, the WF team published up the first four WF3->WF4 migration guidance documents , aimed at helping WF developers prepare and think about the new WF object model runtime. Today, we published the next three documents in the series to the WF4 Migration Guidance document set . With today’s release, we begin moving from the general guidance and start to present cookbook material, addressing more specific scenarios and presenting code. WF Migration Overview ( Already Live ) Overview...

Am I embarking on some kind of weird philosophical/existentialist post? Nope. If you’ve been exploring the ESB Toolkit 2.0, then you know that there is a management portal. In addition, some of the core services provided by the ESB Toolkit are available as Web services. One of those services gives the ability for a Web service client to register the fact that an exception has occured. This is a powerful capability, as (for example) it would allow a J2EE application in a heterogeneous environment...

A few days ago I received an overnight email from Microsoft presenting me with an MVP award in BizTalk. Needless to say I am very excited and happy about it! It is not often that this kind of news is blogged about by one of the best in the field before...

During vacation time last week, I finally sat down to really read The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. I had flipped through it before, but never took the time to digest it. This is the classic book on design pattern which...

I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town. The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event . I’ll be presenting Silverlight...

Background EPiServer implements standard provider functionality for role and membership access through the ASP.NET framework. The most common membership- and role provider is the SQL provider.... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

He lives in NZ…he loves Auckland and he successfully got married last year… Ready to take on the world – I want to congratulate one of the hardest working BTS experts I know… He puts in a tremendous effort for the local community and is always ready for...

As part of the recent BizTalk Server 2009 “First Look” tour I did in the US Southwest district, I developed a demo application that brought together some of the techniques I have used on client projects over the years, and the new ESB Toolkit 2.0. I did so in what I think is a very approachable and easy-to-understand way. I recorded two of the demos, and they are now available at MSDN. In my opinion, the most important of these is the “Order Demo” video . It showcases how we can leverage the Microsoft...

Back at TechEd, the Microsoft guys showed off a prototype of an Azure adapter for BizTalk. Sure enough, now you can find the BizTalk Azure Adapter SDK up on CodePlex.
What’s there? I have to dig in a bit, but looks like you’re getting both...

I had a PowerPoint 2007 presentation this morning that I needed to convert into the OpenDocument Presentation format, to make it usable in OpenOffice 3.0. It was a fairly simple presentation, with no animations or anything, just text and some figures.
My first attempt was to simply use the PPTX importer in Impress, and ended up [...]